Saudades do Brasil

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Saudades do Brasil Opus 67 (derived from Portuguese Saudades , plural of Saudade ) is a dance suite for piano by the French composer Darius Milhaud (1892–1974). Her twelve pieces were composed in 1920 and 1921, after the composer's stay in Latin America in 1917–1918. Each dance is based on a two-bar Tango - or Samba - rhythm and bears the name of a district of Rio de Janeiro or any other South American city. A special characteristic of the pieces is their extended tonality ( bitonality ). There is an orchestral version of this suite. The work was published by Max Eschig in Paris in 1921. The piano pedagogue Klaus Wolters initially commented laconically on the pieces that one could not enjoy these eternally recurring, casual Habana rhythms for long, but then he still gave them a certain charm.

Darius Milhaud (left, seated) on a painting by the Groupe des Six

structure

  1. Sorocaba («modéré», dedicated to Madame Regis de Oliveira)
  2. Botafogo "doucement" (dedicated to Oswald Guerra)
  3. Leme «à l'aise» (dedicated to Nininha Velloso-Guerra)
  4. Copacabana «calme» (dedicated to Godofredo Leão Velloso)
  5. Ipanema («modéré», dedicated to Arthur Rubinstein )
  6. Gavea («vivement», dedicated to Madame Henrique Oswald)
  7. Corcovado ( dedicated to Madame Henri Hoppenot )
  8. Tijuca (dedicated to Ricardo Viñes)
  9. Sumare («léger», dedicated to Henri Hoppenot )
  10. Paineras «souple» (dedicated to La Baronne Frachon)
  11. Laranjeiras (dedicated to Audrey Pann)
  12. Paysandu ("expressif" dedicated to Paul Claudel )

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ or ... Brazil
  2. ↑ K. Wolters, p. 467

literature

  • Darius Milhaud: Saudades do Brasil. Suite de danses pour piano. Max Eschig.
  • Klaus Wolters: manual of piano literature for two hands. Zurich and Mainz 2001

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